Chat live with Joey Kennedy on Tuesday about the immigration law and more

Alabama continues to suffer nationally and internationally over our intolerant immigration law. Newspapers around the nation and world have been taking shots at the state. Questions are being raised about whether Alabama can compete with other states for international companies. Remember, a Mercedes-Benz manager was arrested under the law.

Still, the leaders in the Alabama House and Senate, Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, and Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, vowed in an essay published in Sunday's Viewpoints section that the Legislature will not "repeal or weaken the law." That kind of stubbornness in the face of heading down the wrong path is an Alabama tradition, and one we pay dearly for time and again.

Why can't state leaders admit they overreached; that their law is mean-spirited, ugly, hurting Alabama economically and reminding people across the world of fire hoses and police dogs? Why can't they just say the undocumented problem in Alabama is tiny, compared to other, very real, and very big, problems facing our state? And why do the good people of Alabama put up with this kind of populist leadership. Remember George Wallace?

Put down your two-cents worth about the Alabama's immigration law Tuesday at 1 p.m. during the weekly live chat with News Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer, blogger and columnist Joey Kennedy.

Immigration will be one topic; no doubt, the struggle by Jefferson County to get rid of sewer receiver John S. Young also will come up, as will topics we haven't even thought of yet.

The chat lasts for an hour. Stop by and say hi. Also, follow Joey Kennedy on Twitter: @joeykennedy.